stallion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an adult uncastrated male horse, especially one kept for breeding

   The stallion stood apart from the mares in a fenced paddock.

Simplified etymology

Stallion, recorded from the late Middle English period, probably takes its name ultimately from the stall or stable in which the horse was kept.

From Middle English stalion, from Anglo-French estalon, a breeding male, of Germanic origin and related to stall. The word displaced the native Old English hengest in this sense.

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